On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Felipe Contreras < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Felipe Contreras > <[email protected]> wrote: > > All in all, I don't see any future in libpurple's stock MSN plugin, > > and I don't think Adium should stick with it, specially since it's the > > most popular service[4]. Besides, msn-pecan does have a plan forward > > [5], while Pidgin doesn't. And finally, if you find any problems with > > msn-pecan, they will be tackled eventually for sure. > > I just saw some answers on the web interface of the mailing list. I'm > not subscribed, so please CC me. > > Chris Forsythe: msn-pecan is not 1.0 because it still needs at lot of > work (IMO), in order to be a standalone library using good networking > primitives (GIO), and easy to plug in to different frameworks such as > libpurple and Telepathy. > > However, that's irrelevant, what matters is how it compares to > libpurple's stock prpl. > > It's not irrelevant as 0.1 is a very low number. If it were 1.0, then you've accomplished at least a decent amount of things you set out to accomplish, with a number like 0.1 it doesn't instill a lot of confidence. Would it be better to wait until pecan can plug into libpurple? Are there any more features/bug fixes to the core connectivity to MSN that this library does not have which the msn library in libpurple has? Chris
